单词 | centuriate assembly |
释义 | > as lemmascenturiate assembly 1. Roman History. Designating an assembly in which the Roman people voted by centuries (see century n. 3); of or relating to such an assembly. Esp. in centuriate assembly, centuriate comitia. ΚΠ c1540 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. iii. xviii. 21 To soilȝe this questioun ane law was promulgate [MS pronulgate] in comites centuriat. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vi. 247 In the Centuriate assemblies holden by degrees, and Curiat-meetings by the wardes and parishes [L. nec centuriatis nec curiatis comitiis]. 1661 W. Howell Inst. Gen. Hist. i. vi. 175 Unto two men the Government should be committed, whom they should elect in their Centuriate Comitia. 1743 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 5) at Ovilia Every curia, tribe, and century, as the assembly was centuriate or tribute, &c. having its proper bridge. 1855 H. G. Liddell Hist. Rome II. lvi. 255 He had, in the year before, when he was Consul, carried a Centuriate Law. 1887 Monthly Packet Aug. 196 The right of appeal against the decision of the supreme magistrate to the people in the Centuriate Assembly. 1901 F. F. Abbott Hist. & Descr. Rom. Polit. Inst. iii. 27 The action of the centuriate comitia in electing magistrates, in passing laws, and in deciding appeals was of no great immediate value to the plebs. 1970 R. E. A. Palmer Archaic Community of Romans ix. 277 Our surviving evidence of archaic centuriate legislation is..slight. 2005 C. Williamson Laws of Rom. People v. 221 An explicit formula calculated to ensure that the outcome of the voting in the centuriate assembly reflected the will of the most prosperous Romans. < as lemmas |
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